"Eight to ten million migrants are still on the way"

"In terms of public order and internal security, I simply need to know who is coming to our country." — Austrian Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka.

Turkey appears determined to flood Europe with migrants either way: with Europe's permission by means of visa-free travel, or without Europe's permission, as retribution for failing to provide visa-free travel.

The migrants arriving in Italy are overwhelmingly economic migrants seeking a better life in Europe. Only a very small number appear to be legitimate asylum seekers or refugees fleeing warzones.

The director of the UN office in Geneva, Michael Møller, has warned that Europe must prepare for the arrival of millions more migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

The European Union has called on its member states to lift border controls — introduced at the height of the migration crisis in September 2015 — within the next six months.

The return to open borders, which would allow for passport-free travel across the EU, comes at a time when the number of migrants crossing the Mediterranean continues to rise, and when Turkish authorities increasingly have been threatening to renege on a border deal that has lessened the flow of migrants from Turkey to Europe.

Critics say that lifting the border controls now could trigger another, even greater, migration crisis by encouraging potentially millions of new migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East to begin making their way to Europe. It would also allow jihadists to cross European borders undetected to carry out attacks when and where they wish.

At a press conference in Brussels on May 2, the EU Commissioner in charge of migration, Dimitris Avramopoulos, called on Austria, Denmark, Germany, Norway and Sweden — among the wealthiest and most sought after destinations in Europe for migrants — to phase out the temporary controls currently in place at their internal Schengen borders over the next six months.

The so-called Schengen Agreement, which took effect in March 1995, abolished many of the EU's internal borders, enabling passport-free movement across most of the bloc. The Schengen Agreement, along with the single European currency, are fundamental pillars of the European Union and essential building-blocks for constructing a United States of Europe. With the long-term sustainability of the single currency and open borders in question, advocates of European federalism are keen to preserve both.

Avramopoulos, who argued that border controls are "not in the European spirit of solidarity and cooperation," said:

"The time has come to take the last concrete steps to gradually return to a normal functioning of the Schengen Area. This is our goal, and it remains unchanged. A fully functioning Schengen area, free from internal border controls. Schengen is one of the greatest achievements of the European project. We must do everything to protect it."

The temporary border controls were established in September 2015, after hundreds of thousands of migrants arrived in Europe, and when EU member states, led by Germany, gave special permission to some EU countries to impose emergency controls for up to two years. Since then, the European Union has approved six-month extensions of controls at the German-Austrian border, at Austria's frontiers with Hungary and Slovenia and at Danish, Swedish and Norwegian borders (Norway is a member of Schengen but not the EU). Several countries have argued that they need border controls to combat the threat of Islamic militancy.

On May 2, Sweden, which claims to conduct the most border checks among the EU countries, announced that it will lift controls at its border with Denmark. Sweden received 81,000 asylum seekers in 2014; 163,000 in 2015; 29,000 in 2016, and the same is expected for 2017.

On April 26, Austria called for an indefinite extension of border controls. "In terms of public order and internal security, I simply need to know who is coming to our country," Austrian Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka said. Austria, which accepted some 90,000 migrants in 2015, also called for a "postponement" of the EU refugee distribution program, which requires EU member states to accept a mandatory and proportional distribution of asylum-seekers who arrive in other member nations.

On January 26, Denmark extended border controls for another four months. Integration Minister Inger Støjberg said that her government would extend its border controls "until European borders are under control."

On January 19, Germany and Austria announced that border controls between their countries would continue indefinitely, "as long as the EU external border is not adequately protected."

Meanwhile, the number of migrants making their way to Europe is once again trending higher. Of the 30,465 migrants who reached Europe during the first quarter of 2017, 24,292 (80%) arrived in Italy, 4,407 arrived in Greece, 1,510 arrived in Spain and 256 arrived in Bulgaria, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

By way of comparison, the number of arrivals to Europe during each of the first three months of 2017 exceeded those who arrived during the same time period in 2015, the year in which migration to Europe reached unprecedented levels.

The trend is expected to continue throughout 2017. Better weather is already bringing about a surge of migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea from Libya to Europe. During just one week in April, for example, a total of 9,661 migrants reached the shores of Italy.

The migrants arriving there are overwhelmingly economic migrants seeking a better life in Europe. Only a very small number appear to be legitimate asylum seekers or refugees fleeing warzones. According to the IOM, the migrants who reached Italy during the first three months of 2017 are, in descending order, from: Guinea, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Senegal, Morocco, Mali, Somalia and Eritrea.

In February, Italy reached a deal with the UN-backed government in Tripoli to hold migrants in camps in Libya in exchange for money to fight human traffickers. The agreement was endorsed by both the European Union and Germany.

On May 2, however, German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel reversed course by saying the deal ignored the "catastrophic conditions" in Libya and would not curb migration. He said that Germany now favored tackling migration by fighting instability in Africa:

"What we are trying instead is to help stabilize the countries on the continent. But that is difficult. We will have to show staying power, stamina and patience. This is in the interest of Africans but also in the interest of Europeans."

Gabriel's long-term solution — which in the best of circumstances could take decades to bear fruit — implies that mass migration from Africa to Europe will continue unabated for many years to come.

Italy has emerged as Europe's main point of entry for migrants largely because of an agreement the European Union signed with Turkey in March 2016 to stem migration from Turkey to Greece. In recent weeks, however, Turkish authorities have threatened to back out of the deal because, according to them, the EU has failed to honor its end of the bargain.

Under the agreement, the EU pledged to pay Turkey €3 billion ($3.4 billion), as well as grant visa-free travel to Europe for Turkey's 78 million citizens, and to restart accession talks for Turkey to join the bloc. In exchange, Turkey agreed to take back all migrants and refugees who reach Greece via Turkey.

After the deal was reached, the number of migrants reaching Greece dropped sharply, although not completely. According to data supplied by the European Union on April 12, a total of 30,565 migrants reached Greece since the migrant deal took effect. Only 944 of those migrants have been returned to Turkey. Still, this is in sharp contrast to the hundreds of thousands of migrants who entered Greece at the height of the migration crisis. Turkey's continued cooperation is essential to keep the migration floodgates closed.

On April 22, Turkey's Minister for EU Affairs, Ömer Çelik, issued an ultimatum, warning the European Union that if it does not grant Turkish citizens visa-free travel by the end of May, Turkey would suspend the migrant deal and flood Europe with migrants.

On March 17, Turkey's Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu warned that his country would "blow the mind" of Europe and renege on the deal by sending 15,000 Syrian refugees a month to Europe:

"We have a readmission deal. I'm telling you Europe, do you have that courage? If you want, we'll send the 15,000 refugees to you that we don't send each month and blow your mind. You have to keep in mind that you can't design a game in this region apart from Turkey."

In February 2016, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had already threatened to send millions of migrants to Europe. "We can open the doors to Greece and Bulgaria anytime and we can put the refugees on buses," he told European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker. In a speech, he signaled that he was running out of patience:

"We do not have the word 'idiot' written on our foreheads. We will be patient, but we will do what we have to. Don't think that the planes and the buses are there for nothing."

In February 2016, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (left) threatened to send millions of migrants to Europe. "We can open the doors to Greece and Bulgaria anytime and we can put the refugees on buses," he told Jean-Claude Juncker (right), President of the European Commission. (Image source: Turkish President's Office)

European officials say that to qualify for the visa waiver, Turkey must meet 72 conditions, including the most important one: relaxing its stringent anti-terrorism laws, which are being used to silence critics of Erdoğan, especially since the failed coup in July 2016. Turkey has vowed not to comply with the EU's demands.

Critics of visa liberalization fear that millions of Turkish nationals may end up migrating to Europe. The Austrian newsmagazine, Wochenblick, recently reported that 11 million Turks are living in poverty and "many of them are dreaming of moving to central Europe."

Other analysts believe Erdoğan views the visa waiver as an opportunity to "export" Turkey's "Kurdish Problem" to Germany. According to Bavarian Finance Minister Markus Söder, millions of Kurds are poised to take advantage of the visa waiver to flee to Germany to escape persecution at the hands of Erdoğan: "We are importing an internal Turkish conflict," he warned. "In the end, fewer migrants may arrive by boat, but more will arrive by airplane."

The European Union now finds itself in a Catch-22 situation. Turkey appears determined to flood Europe with migrants either way: with Europe's permission by means of visa-free travel, or without Europe's permission, as retribution for failing to provide visa-free travel.

Greek officials recently revealed that they have drawn up emergency plans to cope with a new migrant crisis. Turkey is hosting some three million migrants from Syria and Iraq, many of whom are presumably waiting for an opportunity to flee to Europe.

Italy is also bracing for the worst. Up to a million people, mainly from Bangladesh, Egypt, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Sudan and Syria are now in Libya waiting to cross the Mediterranean Sea, according to the IOM.

The director of the United Nations office in Geneva, Michael Møller, has warned that Europe must prepare for the arrival of millions more migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East. In an interview with The Times, Møller, a Dane, said:

"What we have been seeing is one of the biggest human migrations in history. And it's just going to accelerate. Young people all have cellphones and they can see what's happening in other parts of the world, and that acts as a magnet."

"The biggest migration movements are still ahead: Africa's population will double in the next decades. A country like Egypt will grow to 100 million people, Nigeria to 400 million. In our digital age with the internet and mobile phones, everyone knows about our prosperity and lifestyle."

Müller added that only 10% of those currently on the move have reached Europe: "Eight to ten million migrants are still on the way."

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90 Reader Comments

Mrs G Wardle • May 15, 2017 at 04:59

Oh dear! I can see a future where millions of Germans, Italians, French and other Europeans will desperately want to flee here to Australia! There is room if they are willing to behave themselves as the other Europeans have done since settlement began here.

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Sarah Mrs G Wardle • May 19, 2017 at 18:06

As a fellow Australian, I tend to agree but I think if that were to ever occur (and it seems likely, especially given what I'm already hearing from the Brit's who have emigrated out here) then a part of behaving themselves when settling, means ditching the absolutely ridiculous European ideals that have landed them in this mess to begin with.

Otherwise we'll see a bunch of Swedes, French, Germans etc etc come here, settle in - and start shrieking for more political correctness, for more welfare, for more diversity and inclusiveness etc etc. They can abandon their ideology at the door, thanks.

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Henry • May 14, 2017 at 18:40

Please excuse my bluntness but why do we keep blaming the EU bureaucrats, and other liberal Western European governments? Isn't it obvious that Europeans themselves define their destiny by voting for the same individuals dedicated to Europe's cultural (and eventually physical) annihilation? Who elected Macron, the obvious enemy of everything French, Merkel, who, as everyone knows, has flooded Europe with the alien cult? There are more examples like Sweden, Norway, Belgium, Italy, Greece, and of cause UK. How about Canada where liberals are implementing anti-free speech sharia laws (motion 103) and US where even the temporary ban on immigration from the most dangerous muslim countries cannot be enforced? What about ANTIFA? What is happening in the civilized world reminds the contagious decease, which can probably be cured by the undesired but most radical treatment...Or maybe not.

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Patricia Canon • May 13, 2017 at 22:44

In past decades people around the world did not leave difficult conditions en masse to depart for Europe. When people were in need the international community airlifted food, tents, medicines, etc. This situation is absurd and their reasoning does not persuade me. History shows us other options. Many countries have been decimated by war and later rebuilt. Did the Germans flee Germany after WWII? Most stayed and rebuilt their country, as did the Russians, Japanese, English, French, Polish, etc. rebuild theirs.

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brane pilot • May 11, 2017 at 12:01

Welcome to the Malthusian Era.In 1914, obsolete security treaties from another historical era led to WWI.In 2017, obsolete refugee and immigration treaties from another historical era will render Europeans a despised minority in Europe before the end of the century.Insects and worms have a greater capacity to learn from experience.

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Paul Rohe • May 11, 2017 at 09:00

A simple solution, stop ALL benefits for migrants, give them only food and a tent in designated areas, given them an option to go back home if they wish. End of migration problem though not the end of the Muslim one.

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Elizabeth Lawson • May 7, 2017 at 12:46

For all their grand conferences and talk, and for all their grand institutions, the EU and its leaders have proven themselves to be a collection of idiots. That have ALL failed in their first responsibility - to protect their own citizens. Now, they are faced with a virtual conundrum of their own making. Having their respective countries overrun by the great unwashed, largely illiterate and impoverished from the African continent and the Middle East. This disaster spells the end of peace, security and respective European cultures. For the past century, while European countries reached for ever greater economic and political heights for their citizens, Africa and the Middle East remained mired in poverty, misery, illiteracy, and barbarism, with the only release from all being early death. Those responsible for this massive invasion of humanity from these regions, the Erdogans, Khadaffys, Husseins, Khomeinis, Mugabes, and all the motley collection of " leaders" from these regions, presided over this human disaster with impunity. The civilized world respected the right of nations to govern as they saw fit, without interference, even when it was, and as been obvious to all that these " leaders" cared nothing for their own people, but used the coffers of their respective countries to aggrandize themselves. Now Europe is being forced to pay the price for their cruelty and barbarism. Worse still is the reality that those rushing to Europe are Muslim adherents who universally appear to be anti Christian. Finally, Germany will undoubtedly bear the brunt of a new Kurdish conflict introduced by Mr. Erdogan to its cities and towns. The architects of all this misery still sit in lofty abodes, with grand salaries and self satisfaction. They have brought about the ruin of Europe as we know it. We can expect future civil wars in European regions where the people rise up and assume the defence of themselves, their cultures and their faiths - all of which their exalted leaders should have foreseen and prevented from ever occurring.

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Mak Elizabeth Lawson • May 26, 2017 at 10:15

Don't forget the only country in the Middle East with a similar level of development and height of civilization: Israel. The one country the EU loves to criticize and handcuff. Europe will get exactly what it wants: anarchy and Islamic rule.

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Jerry S • May 7, 2017 at 10:02

--War is about controlling land, resources and populations. Land just sits there. It's the populations that cause the trouble. The military colonist makes a more enduring occupation possible by settling the land and giving the conquering power a deeper foothold in the enemy territory.The Algerian War is still going strong and France is losing badly. There are fewer bombs and bullets. Only men and women showing up and expecting to be taken care of. An army of millions could not have landed in France and begun pillaging the countryside. Not unless they came as immigrants. If you are going to invade a Socialist country, the best way to do it is as a charity case.Islam embodies expansionism. Its directives of male violence and female subjugation have no other end. They protect the tribal imperatives of endogamy and violence, of inbreeding and the feud. Islam has no ideas except to get bigger, and that makes its followers into ideal military colonists.http://sultanknish.blogspot.co.il/2014/07/know-your-military-colonists.html

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Margaret Jerry S • May 8, 2017 at 13:06

I so agree with your statement Jerry, especially with your second paragraph, so well stated. I am so sad for Europe, my friends inFrance.

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Jayell • May 7, 2017 at 09:08

"The migrants arriving in Italy are overwhelmingly economic migrants seeking a better life in Europe....."

We all know that all the great cities and everything else that is 'good' in Europe just happened to fall like manna from the skies or grew up out of the ground of its own accord. So the entire human race can just turn up and take its share of the goodies as of right. Perish the thought that it might have taken a bit of intelligence, creativity, skill, civility, mutual respect and self-discipline from the people who were already there to produce 'a better life for themselves' in Europe; and that, given the same qualities and efforts, others can achieve likewise in virtually any part of the globe that might be deemed 'habitable', as indeed has been demonstrated (for example) in Israel and on a certain unlikely, rocky off-shore island called Hong Kong - amongst many other places! Yet these sad 'refugees' (sic) have to invite themselves en masse onto someone else's patch so that they can have the sort of good time that they seem to believe they deserve, having apparently failed dismally to achieve it under their own steam. Not a very good track record. It would be so bad if their motivation was respect for the new reluctant hosts, and an ability to learn from them, adopt their values, and fit in. But no, they seem to want only to take what's on offer - except, strictly speaking, nothing was ever offered to them (but they'll take it just the same). I wonder if they would have made their perilous journeys to Europe BEFORE the indigenous inhabitants had done all the groundwork?

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Mary Houghton Jayell • May 11, 2017 at 10:30

Excellent post. No truer words have I ever seen. It should be uploaded to every left wing sight possible. (especially in Sweden)

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Mary M. Jayell • May 11, 2017 at 21:23

Well said, Jayell. What saddens me is that the very people who have the intelligence, creativity, skill, civility, mutual respect and self-discipline you mention are the same people who are promoting and sanctioning this inundation by economic migrants lacking all or most of those qualities.

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Henry Jayell • May 14, 2017 at 19:12

Between your lines, Jayell, I can clearly read the question: "Why the hell are we doing this?", us, victims of our own perverted democracy and mythical political correctness? Europe can effectively stop the invasion but doesn't wish to, being obviously suicidal. Australians seem to be much healthier. Destiny?

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Jayell Henry • May 15, 2017 at 07:13

Hello Henry. Let me tell you a story.

I once had the dubious pleasure of working as a schoolteacher for a Headmaster who firmly believed that 'all children are good', and administered his school on that basis. I never got to question him on the consequent thesis that 'all PEOPLE are good', since 'children' are ipso facto 'people' and since all 'people' develop from 'children' they must all ipso facto be 'good' as well; but that this did not somehow square with the evidence of history (a gentleman named Hitler comes to mind) or the fact that all societies have had a need for penal or corrective institutions in order to function at all. The school in question became the behavioural black spot of the borough and the Headmaster in question responded to the situation by assuming that the problem must lie with the teaching staff - since all children clearly are 'good'. The situation at the school remained pretty dire until he left, an event which the surviving teaching staff strangely did not regret, and then, equally strangely, his successor (with a totally different philosophy towards young people) managed to improve the place to the point that it now has a thoroughly respectable reputation.

Now, what has this lot got to do with the situation in Europe? Answer, everything. Because the idiots in power there suffer from the same politically-correct, intellectually-myopic, self-deprecatory, wilfully ignorant cock-eyed optimism as this Headmaster. And add to that their arrogant and irresponsible negligence as they fail to admit to the gravity of the short-term and long-term problems they are causing by (a) utterly failing to fulfil their duties towards their own peoples and (b) failing to recognise the sad reality that not all human groups have proved themselves inherently capable of attaining the same levels of corporate civility and productiveness and (c) it is NOT the duty of those groups that have succeeded to accommodate willy-nilly the groups that have failed; rather, it is the responsibility of those who are failing to learn how to succeed, which is how Europe, partly through the Renaissance, managed to create itself as it is today.

Another interesting point is the concept of the word 'good' in the context of the sort of moral/cultural relativism that seems so fashionable in certain exalted quarters these days. The Headmaster's thesis that 'all children are good' seemed to validate all kinds of antisocial and disruptive attitudes an behaviours that caused his school to descend into anarchy at times. Likewise, the mutually-exclusive moral and legal standards of islamic and Western values seem to call into question any universal notion of 'goodness' when so many islamic 'virtues' are, in Western terms, plain 'bad'. So we have to re-define 'good' according to the particular local social context? How can you run a 'society' that way?

By the way, I had left the school well before the Headmaster took his leave. There were rumours of 'rumblings in high places' before he departed, so it's possible that he was 'helped on his way'. With Europe, it's going to have to be more than just a few 'rumblings in low places' to help the miscreants in high places on their way.

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Henry Jayell • May 18, 2017 at 20:32

Jayell, I have to disagree with some of your comments. The European "myopic idiots" in power are not quite blind imbeciles. They are rather goal oriented. Indeed, you should really be blind not to see what islam is about. It is enough to look into the muslims play book (quran) and learn the facts of life of their prophet (Hadith) to understand the islamic goals and means to achieve them. Analyzing the latest events you can easily observe specific Orwellian patterns of governing. The West is undergoing suicidal decadence and the increased dominance of Islam is the result. Surely, the excess of something turns this matter into poison. The same is happening to democracy and liberal liberties. Their excess has poisoned the Western world, brainwashed the younger generations, and transformed the so-called political correctness into the witch hunt paving the way to the invading murderous cult. Nothing new is under the sun and watching the Western democracy on its death bed we can observe familiar patterns.

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Jerry S • May 7, 2017 at 08:53

- Until the incentive to come to Europe is removed the influx wont stop.- Societies which have lost the will to defend themselves will perish. Modern Europe will be neither the first nor the last to do so.
- Just one year's increase in population of the African continent is quite sufficient to drown European civilization.
The rest is all literature.

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Belter • May 7, 2017 at 04:46

I am confused. Since when have illegal so-called economic migrants become legal? They have a lot of money to pay the smugglers so obviously are not starving. Why are sovereign states not willing to detain them and send them back as with any illegal immigration smuggling activity?

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Yatindra Bhatnagar • May 6, 2017 at 14:52

Europe is being submerged by the waves of illegal migrants, overwhelmingly Muslims, that will change the demography, economy, culture, well-being, religion, civilization, democratic system, law-and-order and traditions of the entire continent. The mindless policies of liberalization and globalization is drowning Europe as we know it. Let the leaders open their eyes to the danger and act, and act fast to reverse their policies or face disasters. These policies will affect generations of real Europeans.

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NickSJ • May 6, 2017 at 14:00

There is a new form of invasion, in which the invaders simply walk across undefended borders, then demand that the local citizens support them. Governments' incompetence has reached the point where they are unable to perform the most basic task - defending against invasion. The invaders are gradually transforming Europe and the United States into replicas of their home countries, and will eventually drive the former citizens out.

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Ed in North Texas • May 6, 2017 at 09:34

IF European leaders had the will, those countries with a common border with Turkey could mobilize their military forces to keep migrants out of the country. It would not be perfect, but would surely reduce the flow drastically. Except the leaders of those countries which determined to do this would inevitably find themselves under attack by the EU and other EU national (no commentary intended by using EU and "national" in the same sentence) leaders.

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Mike • May 6, 2017 at 09:32

Erdogan knows just what he is doing here. He is pumping Islam into Europe knowing full well that they will take over. Why doesn't he simply stop people from coming into Turkey from these countries instead of just being a highway to Europe? Europe needs to call his hand on that.

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Richard Mackin, Jr. • May 6, 2017 at 08:57

In a hundred years most if not all of the 2017 world population will not be around to witness the demographic changes resulting from current events in Europe and the United States.

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Christian Schmidt Richard Mackin, Jr. • May 7, 2017 at 11:56

Yes, most definitely since by then living conditions will have deterioated so far that few make it to age 75. But sadder even: They will never experience how good life was before all this disastrous demographic shift. They will only get an inkling from immersing themselves in old books, newspapers or film/video footage, provided that any form of what we call civilization is around anymore.

I wonder if future-warning people 70 years ago thought the same about us now, who look at blighted overcrowded polluted cities with ugly architecture filled with overworked people and pastoral landscapes destroyed by sprawl and energy infrastructure. Certainly not all was good in the past, but many things were definitely were better than today, especially in many other parts of the world.

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Roydenoral Christian Schmidt • May 9, 2017 at 10:35

So true. The lying politicians say the immigrants are necessary to provide a workforce that will take care of the aging European population. I wonder how this workforce will achieve this goal since so many of them are on welfare, have limited to no job skills, and do not speak the language of the host country. Looks like the aging population will have to work longer to support the immigrants. So bizarre, you cannot make this stuff up. I pray that liberty and freedom will remain somewhere in the world.

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Mary Houghton • May 6, 2017 at 08:39

Avramopoulos, who argued that border controls are "not in the European spirit of solidarity and cooperation," FFS! Maybe a decade or so ago he MAY have had a point. When you have people of similar types crossing borders into their neighbour's country, it is not such a big deal. But even keeping aside the completely dangerous idea of letting millions of "unknowns" into Europe, how in God's name are they going to be supported? The majority of them are just plain and simple economic migrants with no skills, and will NEVER be an asset to any country. It is imperative that "WE THE PEOPLE OF EUROPE" get a bloody say in what is going to be the biggest catastrophic event to happen to us in the last decade. ENOUGH! Let Saudi Arabia and the like open their doors to them.

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Merle Haggert • May 6, 2017 at 06:13

*Beep, beep* The Truck of Tolerance is on the way with your order of 10 million new Europeans! Please leave the door open to receive your diversified strength.

Why do EU leaders hate EU citizens so much?

Nevermind, we know why...

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Dave K. • May 6, 2017 at 02:48

This begs the questions as to why people from the poorest, least educated countries are the most prolific breeders on the planet, whereas prosperous and high-tech North Europe have population growth rates below replacement levels. The West needs to deal forcefully with the out-of-control population problem in African and Arab countries. There are education and probably technological ways to tackle this. But the Left and their Muslim fellow travelers will scream bloody murder at the thought. Meanwhile, poverty will only get worse in these countries and lead to a vicious cycle of increasing migration until Europe bursts at the seams. A Malthusian nightmare is upon us and EU will be one of the major culprits.

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Bisley • May 5, 2017 at 22:05

This is a problem for the individual nations to deal with, in defiance of EU policy if necessary. It is they who will suffer from uncontrolled immigration, not the bureaucrats in Brussels, and it's up to them to stop it, if they have the will.

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Juanita Skelton • May 5, 2017 at 18:47

Absolutely amazing that a nation in the modern world would use the threat or barter with human lives. Threatening a nation with HUMANS! I think international relations has reached a new low. The newest weapon of war in the world was and still is rape, but now it includes mass migration! If you don't do what I want or need you to do, I will flood your borders with humans! If you don't agree to my terms, I subject you to my extended family!!!! Wow! Sorry but "wow" maybe an inane reaction but this eclipses even Hitler!!!!

ASYLUM+benefits for Refugees are the ONLY ProblemABOLISH asylum for RefugeesABOLISH benefits for foreigners.BAN all entry for Africans and Arabs and third world countries.Send all Refugees homeConvert old ferries and cruise ships to Prison ships and send all so called Refugees homeOnly when the Door is shut will they stop comingONLY Muslim countries should take Muslim refugeesAnd African Union can take African refugees

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Mike O'Neill • May 5, 2017 at 16:46

* "Eight to ten million migrants are still on the way" *"Eight to ten million third-world invaders are still on the way"There, that fixed it.

* Europe must prepare for the arrival of millions more migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East. *Europe must prepare for and then prevent the arrival of millions more invaders from Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Fixed that one as well.

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Stuart Hurlbert • May 5, 2017 at 16:45

Spinelessness combined with a reality-blind mindset on the part of most EU politicians seem to guarantee the further demise of Europe socially, economically and environmentally.

It's a great model of how not to do things for North America and Australia which may be shortly be receiving demands for asylum from Europeans fleeing Europe.

These mass flows of people are easily stopped, once the politicians stop providing such massive incentives and welcome signs. Every boat needs to be intercepted and returned to the coast it left from. Every group of illegal trekkers needs to apprehended by a country and returned to the neighboring country that allowed their transit across the border. Do that for a few weeks and watch the flows decrease.

Maybe the US could rent out Donald Trump briefly to the more feckless EU governments.

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Mrs G Wardle Stuart Hurlbert • May 6, 2017 at 10:32

So far we have managed to keep things under reasonable control in Australia. I too expect to see many Europeans escaping here to avoid being swallowed in Shariah repression etc. I would prefer to see people of peace accepted as immigrants, which our European ancestors have always proved to be.

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Poliwatch • May 5, 2017 at 13:52

Schengen (EU) no doubt, is a 'one world order' prototype.

If left to continue, nothing short of a drastic world war could return it back to the old Europe of sovereign Countries.

Let the EU fall apart as it seems it is.

The world cannot allow the likes of Erdogan to dictate the future of Europe.

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stevenl • May 5, 2017 at 13:12

For how long did Europe take advantage of Africa & other countries? What did Africa receive in return? Payback time!Europe enlightenment!!!

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Michael Fortunato stevenl • May 5, 2017 at 14:51

Africa received civilization. If they can keep it.

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Harold Svennsen stevenl • May 5, 2017 at 15:11

So those millions of citizens who lived in Europe and participated not one wit in the exploitation of Africa in past decades are deserving of having their lifestyles disrupted by unimpeded 3rd world migration?

Your comment is thoughtless and silly; the kind of sound bites neo-Bolsheviks throw around, never considering accountability or expecting disagreement.

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JaniceD stevenl • May 5, 2017 at 15:50

Travel to trade and make a profit has been a human activity since the stone age. What stopped anyone from putting out their own effort, taking their own risk? And why only accuse Europe? Perhaps they got the idea from abuse that was done to them? Is it really productive to perpetuate and justify an endless cycle of revenge? We all understand "hijrah" - the real purpose of this "migration" is invasion and destruction, not just making a profit. You do not kill the goose who laid the golden egg.

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Bob Blackthorne Michael Fortunato • May 5, 2017 at 18:31

Mike, Africa MIGHT have received civilization, but once they forced out the Europeans who engineered everything and developed resources, pretty much every Africa country is run by despots and going bankrupt. Civil wars, famins, rampant diseases spreading, pretty much exactly what it was 300 years ago.

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Julian Farmer stevenl • May 6, 2017 at 01:36

Be careful what you wish for! You may get it?

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Dimitri • May 5, 2017 at 13:02

I live in Canada but am of Greek descent. I have family in Greece and I have considered moving there. I have no issue with Europe accepting refugees/asylum seekers. However, as this article points out, most of these people are economic migrants, thus they should be sent back to where they came from. They are taking advantage of Europe's hospitality and in they end they will only end up ruining the continent. All of Europe, not just Greece and Italy need to station ships in the Mediterranean to catch smuggler's and send them back. Let them know Europe is full.

There is only one way to deal with Turkey and that is to stop negotiating with them. You can't deal with a country that just wants to dictate terms and hurl threats if they don't get their way. If Europe gives in then they will continue to ask for more.

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Helena Brill Dimitri • May 5, 2017 at 15:08

Dimitri, I support your opinion. I'm a Canadian too. Stop letting migrants who come for economic reasons. They have to stay in their countries and fight and work hard for improving their situation. But it's easier to come to a civilized country and demand and destroy. They are not used to contribute.

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Bruno Dimitri • May 5, 2017 at 17:17

Who is coming to Europe ? TO ALL THE PEOPLE BELOW. I have read your ideas, remarks and your fears. What you are experiencing in Europe is an invasion. There are countries facilitating this. There was an Italian movie produced many years ago 1966 "Africa Addio" It should be watched by all in Europe before your culture is destroyed completely.

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Jean • May 5, 2017 at 13:00

The migrants coming from poor, uneducated countries are expecting to be fed, clothed and housed by the host countries. Working people who pay taxes, are expected to shoulder the burden of supporting the migrants. These people are not really migrants, they are invaders of a hostile people, who will attempt to force acceptance of their culture upon host countries. Europe is being conquered without a shot being fired.

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Lyn Rubenstein • May 5, 2017 at 12:47

My personal feeling is that they do not want a better life. They live in "ghettos," their choice, that the police are afraid to enter. They are coming to Europe for one simple reason -- the spread of Sharia Law across Europe. They are patient. It can take a generation or two, but within 30 years, Europe will be engulfed in Muslims who believe in Sharia Law. Thankfully, we still have President Trump -- at least as of now. We need the Wall desperately built! We have Sharia-believing Muslims in Government now like Keith Ellison, a rising star in the Democrat party. G-d help us if he runs for President!

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george Lyn Rubenstein • May 5, 2017 at 16:16

Yes, you are correct. Civilization jihad is spelled out in this Muslim Brotherhood memorandum. https://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/2013/05/25/an-explanatory-memorandum-from-the-archives-of-the-muslim-brotherhood-in-america/

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Tin Staafl • May 5, 2017 at 12:45

It is not impossible to stop these economic illegal migrants from entering Europe; it obviously has its problems but they could be stopped. The main problem is that the EU, willingly tied in to subterfuge with the OIC to import MORE migrants, does not therefore want to stop these millions of culture destroying people into Europe.

It would not be impossible to make life difficult for Turkey if the EU had such an inclination; it doesn't. This tsunami of alien, illegal looters of the public purse and destroyers of centuries of European culture and achievement are, incredibly, just what the EU wants to fulfill the project of the destruction of old Europe. Why else would they want to end border controls in the face of such a catastrophe?

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Bob • May 5, 2017 at 12:03

Socialism contains its own poison pill. As Margret Thatcher said, you eventually run out of someone else's money. The European Union is following the American Marxist plan closely, the Cloward-Piven strategy to bankrupt the state with excess benefits and thereby crash it, bringing about the necessary dictatorship. Antonio Gramsci also planned soft takeover, because the Red Terror attracted too much hard line resistance. People still don't catch on, Angela Merkel is a CIA communist, was and always will be, an incompetent product of machine politics, who only follows orders from her shadowy bosses. Germany and most of Europe are doomed by now, and Turkey will be picking up the pieces.

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Poliwatch Bob • May 5, 2017 at 14:46

You're one of the few people I've encountered on social media who gets it. Hope people are listening.

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DockyWocky • May 5, 2017 at 11:52

I don't know about you, but this is a thinly disguised invasion of the socialistic fools that used to run Europe. Every photo of "migrants" shows a overwhelming number of Islamic males of military age, plus a few Islamic female "breeders who appear to be sent along to produce "replacements" when called upon.

With the large numbers shown, it is apparent that any number of the bearded ones could be sacrificed when it finally comes to suicidal attacks on European militaries that will supply the survivors necessary weaponry to continue their total occupation and domination Allah requires.

It is sort of like how the white European's conquered and dominated the native peoples of the U.S. Its a simple numbers game. In a few hundred years or so, Europe will be stuffed to the gills with minarets on every street corner.

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Mike • May 5, 2017 at 11:39

The day may arrive when "migrants" have to be forcibly stopped from arriving from Turkey, including by violent means if necessary. Some refoulement, so to speak.

A little of this and the problem would be solved permanently. Ugly, but less ugly than giving up your own country permanently.

This is what the choice may get to. And we know exactly the side that most European politicians will be on.

Orban knows it too, which is why he's building a fence around Hungary.

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jeb • May 5, 2017 at 11:34

This is not a migration or immigration which suggests to Americans at least until the last decade of Obama, assimilation. This is an attempt to colonize (or a Hijrah) Europe and make it submissive to Islam. It will lead to making arrogant regressive liberal socialists slaves and they think or wish to believe they are dealing with "revolutionaries" who because their religion is relatively new are kindred spirits. Its hard not to just shrug and say they deserve each other. Save for the global implications that the world would become a stagnant cesspool of arrested progress. Because the poverty and climate these people seek to escape, they will bring with them because they not adaptable.Marxists like to assume they are dialectic ally progressive wow that is one of the biggest lies told in history.

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Commander Johnson • May 5, 2017 at 11:30

Ten million more Muslims?

Get out the Sharpie Markers and get ready to draw that dashed line around your throats with the words, CUT HERE.

It may be (darkly) entertaining for some to watch a person commit suicide, but when that suicide is a growing malignant cancer rather than a bullet or a rope, then the entertainment turns to terror. And then mix in a good dose of insanity and you have Europe.

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Marty • May 5, 2017 at 11:10

Obviously the future for both continental Europe & the UK is under a threat unique in recorded history.

There is evidence of massive population shifts in pre-historic times, but those were made without the aid of modern travel & communications. The earliest immigrants to Europe can have had little idea what awaited them, just that they wanted more land & Europe was truly terra incognita.

Today, millions believe that jobs, subsidised housing, promiscuous girls etc are theirs for the asking, once they raise a couple of thousand dollars for the people traffickers.

Traffickers are, of course, in cahoots with the assorted charities which effect "rescues" & even national navies assist with the importation of unwanted and unidentifiable people into Europe.

The question that must baffle all serious persons is this.

Exactly who benefits from the colonisation of the First World by the Third World?

Plenty of young people have been mis-educated at the level of higher education, and probably the Germans don't just want cheap labour, they possibly feel guilt at the crimes of their parents & grandparents.

But how does punishing the poorer classes & destroying Western values atone for the Holocaust ?

Just what are the deep forces at work here, and what are their aims ?

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pianoforte54 Marty • May 5, 2017 at 17:00

I'm sure, those who lived through the Crusades and the popes that fought to stem the tide of Islam in Europe are rolling over in their graves to see what is happening now.

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Marty pianoforte54 • May 6, 2017 at 04:40

Exactly. Islam is an ideology of conquest & has been from its inception. However, our ancestors resisted invasion. Those who claim to represent us in government and the liberal media today welcome it. In the UK, the last Archbishop of Canterbury, a university friend of Tony Blair, wanted the incorporation of Sharia in to UK law. I can only ask myself just what are their motives to wish for the destruction of a civilisation from which they have benefitted so richly.

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Barbara Marty • May 6, 2017 at 17:56

I think it's just the insanity of the world. Whenever I think I've heard or seen it all, one of our politicians does something even more insane. Not sure if it's gonna end before I go the way of the dodo bird but time will tell.

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Bob Blackthorne • May 5, 2017 at 11:09

Rampant sexual assaults. 10,000 cars set afire. "Groping" little kids and girls in public swimming pools. Solution? Bring in ANOTHER million or so to show them how wonderfully "nice" we are!

Specifically, at some point, I should say during the Islamic terrorist wave beginning in the early 70s -- say, Munich -- Muslim states let it be known privately to European leaders that either Europe open itself to unfettered Muslim migration or Muslim states would unleash the Islamic terrorists they host to overwhelm Europe with a continuous bloodbath. In other words, either Europe acquiesce to a peaceful invasion or a violent invasion. The European leaders chose the latter, although obviously this did not immunize EUrope from terrorist carnage anyway.

Implicit in the blackmail is the baleful reality that Europe is too weak (from two devastating wars in one century), morally spent and decadent to go to war to defend its civilization. The Muslims got the message, and the words of Erdogan echo the message sent those decades ago.

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JoAnn Leichliter • May 5, 2017 at 10:34

There is no particular reason that Europe should accept most of these migrants. They should be stopped at the water's edge. Anyone "rescued" from the water between Africa and Europe should be returned to Africa, regardless of country of origin. If Germany wants to "stabilize" Africa, I strongly suggest it be prepared to colonize most of it, because there is likely no other solution. In the long run, the colonization of Europe by the Third World will benefit neither Europe nor the invaders, who will simply destroy the societies from which they hope to benefit.

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Mike Briggs • May 5, 2017 at 10:33

The European Union, the individual nations of Europe and even the very birthplace of Western Civilization as we have known it is a 'Dead Man Walking' at this point! Their feckless leadership is incapable of righting their floundering Union and it is destined to become a mere shadow of its former self in the near future; and, soon thereafter an ascendant Islamization will have conquered the continent without firing a shot! Unless the US comes to Europe's rescue?!

No, I am not suggesting we take in more 'Muslim Invaders' (really just Jihadists and economic migrants). That would be the disaster we would now be experiencing of Hillary Clinton had been elected. But the US is the right country and probably the only country that could organize a movement by and for all concerned to 'Safe Zones' in those war torn regions. And Donald Trump is the right man (and probably the only man at this point with the cache and vision) to spear head that critical and necessary effort ...or Europe will further become what the entire Middle East (sans Israel) is today! A smoldering mess!

Not that President Trump has nothing else to do. Fixing all of Obama's messes is more than enough to keep him and Mike Pence busy for the next 15.5 years. But, if he doesn't do it, or just get it started, the job will not get done and America's legacy of saving Europe's bacon in WWI, WWII and the Cold War will have all gone for naught! And, unlike those conflicts, the US just needs to lead! The money (from oil rich ME nations, and manpower necessary (from Europe itself) is available.

Will someone else please tell the President about this for me, since I do not have s 'Smart Phone', ... and I do not tweet!?

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dolora Mike Briggs • May 7, 2017 at 02:25

President Trump knows what's going on in Europe and he can't believe the people and the leaders are just letting it happen. Send them all back. Stand up and demand it. Vote in politicians like Trump who don't want refugees, migrants or whatever you want to call them into our country to destroy it. Europe is already being ruined beyond repair. Trump is trying to have safe zones in Syria to stop the refugees from pouring our of that country. He is well aware of the crisis going on in Europe. He wants Le Pen to win. She will stop the refugees pouring into France. It is such a shame that Europe is being ruined. The Muslims all have 15 kids too so in 30-50 years they will overtake all of Europe.

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Michael Waugh • May 5, 2017 at 10:19

Our immigrant problem relates to those arriving from the East ie Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, India etc. Germany and Merkel are making this worse. If she is content for her country to suffer increasing violent crimes and drug dealing which the police are afraid to deal with (and report), that is her affair. But other EU countries are supposed to share this ? Italy is taking in Africans and moving them North no doubt approved of by Macron (?) Why don't the various navies lead the boats home and destroy the empty boats moored in Libya ? Most of those travelling seem to be young men (who can afford the journey) leaving the poor at home. Islamisation just increases our problems.

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Nelson Kardos • May 5, 2017 at 10:17

This situation reminds me of a modern reply of the Greek legend of the Trojan Horse. But whereas the ancient Greeks were able to enter the walls of Troy by deceit, the present European Govt. have done better, and are placing purchase orders for many Trojan horses for delivery to modern Troy. King Menelaus of ancient Greece would die of laughter, and also complain how easy a job the modern besiegers of Troy are having. While the Greeks had to fight their way into Ancient Troy, the modern besiegers from the third world are being invited into Modern Troy (Europe). In Ancient Troy, Princess Cassandra had prophesied disaster and no one listened. If Cassandra could view the current migrant invasion to Europe, she would recognize this as a repeat performance and withe the same tragic result.

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Michael Fortunato • May 5, 2017 at 10:17

The EU must want Ms. LePen to win. If this isn't madness then we have not seen madness yet. Thank goodness the US put Trump in office because Clinton would have hoped right aboard this train.

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George Gallagher • May 5, 2017 at 09:57

The Traitorous Macron (Merkel puppet) has dreams of bring back the Vichy government!

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Popescu • May 5, 2017 at 09:33

Will the EU defend us or must we take care of ourselves alone? It's another type of conquest. Is it so difficult to see what's obvious???

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Don • May 5, 2017 at 08:35

There will also be an influx of economic refugees flocking to Europe from Africa. Most will be unskilled and a drain on social programs in European countries. With the influx of war displaced refugees from the Middle East, Europe is already straining their social systems. Europe needs to start closing it's borders. Give food aid and temporary shelter to keep Africans in their own countries.

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jeb • May 5, 2017 at 08:24

The DNC holds that one can be a refugee as a result of economic disparity. Regressive liberal socialists see immigration as a means to affirm redistribution of wealth as former President Obama did. In their schizophrenic reality having more than others is a crime and they believe capitalism is the cause of schizophrenia. What it does is effectually guarantee a source for domestic cheap labor. Regressive ideology pushed the boundaries of unions to the breaking point, and have traded one form of ineptness for another. With the intention of meeting "global" expectations. Their ideology and legacy has been one disaster after another. And they actually accept Islam as a non-religious revolutionary entity.

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Ariel • May 5, 2017 at 08:23

With idiots running the EU, Europe is doomed.

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chris • May 5, 2017 at 08:19

Migrants can never be assimilated when they arrive in constant waves of hundred of thousands at a time so a strict moratorium should have been carried out after the first wave.

Unfortunately Europe is now in a very precarious position. Germany offered Turkey EU membership and now Turkey is using the migrants as a form of blackmail - in other words if the EU doesnt give Turkey what it wants (billions of euros or visa free travel or EU membership or all of these at once) then the migrants will just be pushed into Europe through Turkey.

Greece also has an agenda since it is where most of the migrants through Turkey end up and it seems that the lives of many ordinary Greeks are being wrecked. If I were Greek, I would probably be very angry at Germany's (again) invitation to the 3rd world to come to Europe for a life free of work at European taxpayers expense. And now Greece will probably use the threat of handing out visas too, in order to get debts written off.

Not a good time to be living in Europe and to be forced to watch helplessly as everything our ancestors fought and died for is being given away while a future for our children looks less and less likely.

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Anson E. Long • May 5, 2017 at 08:19

Open borders swing both ways, O insignificant Sultan!

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Cicero Zometa • May 5, 2017 at 08:09

EU Socialist governments using the term 'Islamophobia' to strip citizens of individual rights. EU countries are considering forcing women to wear scarves outdoors to placate Muslims and defend against alleged 'Islamophobia'. Muslim men who rape children are then released by the authorities because it sends the wrong message to oppose Muslim cultural norms.

What next? Will they demand the extermination of dogs. Forced marriages of 9-year old girls to adult males. Will non-believers in Islam be ostracized, forced to pay higher taxes, have their property seized as were Christians in the Mideast? Islamophobia is a myth, it's the normal reaction of civilized people to reject draconian, abusive cultures that are a danger to the safety and well being of civilized human beings.

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Julian Farmer Cicero Zometa • May 6, 2017 at 02:03

Private property is already being seized. I stayed in a hotel in Germany-5 stars. I went to dinner and found the hotel full of migrants. I will not describe the state of the hotel next day. I checked out and demanded my money back. Human urine in lifts and corridors, even feces. When I challenged the reception they called me "Intolerant". What because I don't want poop outside my room?

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Silvia • May 5, 2017 at 07:34

I pray to God that the French have enough common sense to put a halt to this situation. Only a win by Marine Le Pen can a halt to this situation before we will all be history!

The next developing nation is either Germany or Sweden or .....

We will no doubt all go done the same route or no return.....

Let's hope our Prime Minister finally closes our borders to stem the flood of more immigration which will doubtlessly spill over to our country.

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Stephanie • May 5, 2017 at 07:31

My question is why can they walk into our countries without documents, but if we go as tourists we have to comply with the law? It is shocking.

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Neptune Stephanie • May 7, 2017 at 09:18

That's because we are not Muslims running from Islamic repression.

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Jeff Page • May 5, 2017 at 07:10

More threats from Turkey to flood Europe with Muslim immigrants. It's exactly how Muslims carry on with their everyday lives. They make threats in order to get what they want. Still, the EU idiots refuse to see the threats for what they are, another way via the visa system to get even more Muslims into Europe where they will inevitably sponge off of the benefits systems in the countries they turn up in! And from the response of some of these EU idiot's they still, want to throw open borders and allow free passage to Muslims. I doubt very much many will be checked either, the EU has a problem and seems to consider immigrants human rights far outweigh the indigenous population's rights!

How on earth they thought Erdogan could be trusted to control things is simply ludicrous and naive, many immigrants still managed to cross the Med.

The officials in the EU seem to prefer Muslims to their own people, maybe we should all move to Hungary or another EU country that will not tolerate being dictated to and forced to receive immigrants against their will.

It is another reason why the EU is trying to force Britain to pay towards their budget when we leave, they know full well that money will be required to keep many of these immigrants on benefits because although some will work the vast majority are illiterate and won't!

I feel for the whole of Europe now because the fools in control are in reality losing that control and the total destruction of Europe, is well on the way. The Muslims will not stop until they gain control and they EU fools are stood watching.

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Michael Copeland Jeff Page • May 5, 2017 at 15:51

The "fools in control" have their undeclared ulterior motive.
The tainted and bullying Peter Sutherland of the UN revealed some of this plan.
He, instigator of the bossily-named UN "Global Forum for Migration and Development" (as if those two go together), is disparaging about the British, describing them as:

"...we ... ourselves, who still nurse a sense of our homogeneity and difference from others....
And that's precisely what the European Union, in my view, should be doing its best to undermine."

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Graham B Richards • May 5, 2017 at 06:52

I take it as a foregone conclusion that the people of Europe have been consulted in the normal democratic way and in full agreement with this. Good luck to you folks. You obviously are not familiar with living in third world conditions with murder and mayhem on the streets.

To the people of Britain, secure all your borders now and double up on strict border controls with trustworthy officials. All hell is going to break loose.

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David Salinger • May 5, 2017 at 06:45

German Development Minister says....." Everyone knows about our prosperity and lifestyle ". It won't be sustainable. This will collapse.

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Daniel Andrew Stevenson • May 5, 2017 at 06:39

The agenda is clear as daylight. Flood Europe with an apostate ideology, subject the people of Europe to mass imigration; place burden on the system-it crashes and what do you have? Chaos!

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Ken Besig • May 5, 2017 at 06:27

The Europeans neither marry nor produce European babies. Without this Islamic invasion Europe will demographically die in a couple more generations.

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Michael Copeland Ken Besig • May 5, 2017 at 15:54

WITH this Islamic invasion and population replacement Europe will be killed.

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Gavril • May 5, 2017 at 06:10

God, this seems like a nightmare we just can't wake up from.

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dm • May 5, 2017 at 06:01

8 - 10 million are on their way!!!!!!!!!! fantastic.... This is just the transfer of a failed culture which is bringing its failed culture into a working culture. The end product is, as these people do not integrate, the failed culture conditions will remain and grow into a ghetto, raping, murderous gang outlook.

The EU have a lot to answer for, and will have a lot to answer for with their open borders nonsense. If I had realised that idiot people like Junker, Erdogan and the infamous Obumma would actually be listened too in this lifetime, I would not have had any children. The writing is on the wall, and instead of protecting the European people, these brain dead politicians are going for mass culling of Europeans. OR maybe that was/is their plan all along. It seems so!!!!

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Bob Blackthorne dm • May 5, 2017 at 15:21

The biggest difference between European countries and the USA is, WE refused to allow OUR politicians to disarm us. And never will. We HAVE OUR GUNS. And, several tens of MILLIONS of our LAW-ABIDING citizens are licensed to carry concealed weapons. We WILL use them to immediately put a stop to assaults by these despicable mongrels. The Democrats are the ones who have always been trying to disarm LAW-ABIDING CITIZENS, and also the ones who have facilitated bringing in hundreds of thousands of unidentifiable migrants from the very worst Muslim-dominated countries. Then, too, the FACT that Muslims have established at LEAST 32 Islamic "Training Camps" strategically located across the country is but a hint of their potential evil to put upon us. They ARE "training" for SOMETHING." It is likely an all-out coordinated attack on our infrastructure, utilities, computer networks, etc. Lock and load, folks! The "BIG ONE" is just around the corner!

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Paul Bob Blackthorne • May 5, 2017 at 22:29

Unfortunately, I believe that your assessment is most probably going to be the end result. A worldwide phenomena of Civil War when each country gets to the point that it has had enough of an envisioned globalism by the political elite. Gun control through registration and licensing will allow Authorities to seize those weapons before a complete breakdown of law and order to prevent you defending yourself. Resist and it will be over your dead body!

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Rickytee Bob Blackthorne • May 6, 2017 at 07:38

Actually, Bob - You are quite correct. How many folk are completely ignorant of that fact - The Islamic training camps throughout the US. Everyone is in for a huge shock - not only here very soon, but in Europe too. Fortunately many Americans are well armed, and they need to be; the forthcoming troubles that all of us are likely to be experiencing sooner than later will shock most folk senseless!

Unless those Socialists wake up soon - which I doubt very much, they will be discovering to their horror that they have been "on the wrong side of the tracks." There is a terrible time coming for all of us, which I feel is almost inevitable due to the huge amount of apathy with many people - including politicians - and those folk who "see" the danger ahead are roundly criticized and scorned as being conspiracy theorists!

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